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Historical Event on 10/24/1657
Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/27/1873 | Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly, was born at Karmasad, Gujarat. |
| 3/29/1869 | Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 4/6/1606 | Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra. |
| 11/19/1961 | World Council of Churches convened their third assembly at New Delhi during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group. |
| 8/4/2000 | Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 3/31/1997 | Forex reserves touch a record $ 22.36 billions. |
| 1/19/1976 | C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died. |
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